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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/arts/24peer.html?_r=2
See also
http://archiv.twoday.net/search?q=peer+review
See also
http://archiv.twoday.net/search?q=peer+review
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 24. August 2010, 03:55 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://screenr.com/3a0
or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcszAy9JoOY
See also
http://www.googlesharing.net/
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6167165/ (German)
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5463913/
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6067526/ (German)
KlausGraf - am Montag, 23. August 2010, 23:59 - Rubrik: English Corner
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KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 19. August 2010, 16:13 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/483.htm
National Archives.
Living the Poor Life involved more than 200 volunteers across the country, including local and family historians, researching and cataloguing 19th century records from the huge Ministry of Health archive (MH12). [...]
As part of the 18-month project, volunteer editors were given access to the digitised correspondence of 21 Poor Law Unions, from Berwick-upon-Tweed in the North to Truro in the South-West, and from Mitford and Launditch in East Anglia to Cardiff and Llanfyllin in Wales. Once notoriously difficult to research due to their size and limited indexing, these records now have detailed catalogue entries and a keyword search facility.
The result is an invaluable new resource for researchers and historians containing numerous tales of family breakdown, corruption and blackmail and the previously untold stories of the poor, left behind by Britain's Industrial Revolution. Visitors to The National Archives website can now access more than 115,000 scanned images of original records from 108 volumes of Poor Law Union records, searchable by place, name and subject matter and free to download at http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/livingthepoorlife .
That records can be downloaded free of cost is an exception in the UK National Archives.
National Archives.
Living the Poor Life involved more than 200 volunteers across the country, including local and family historians, researching and cataloguing 19th century records from the huge Ministry of Health archive (MH12). [...]
As part of the 18-month project, volunteer editors were given access to the digitised correspondence of 21 Poor Law Unions, from Berwick-upon-Tweed in the North to Truro in the South-West, and from Mitford and Launditch in East Anglia to Cardiff and Llanfyllin in Wales. Once notoriously difficult to research due to their size and limited indexing, these records now have detailed catalogue entries and a keyword search facility.
The result is an invaluable new resource for researchers and historians containing numerous tales of family breakdown, corruption and blackmail and the previously untold stories of the poor, left behind by Britain's Industrial Revolution. Visitors to The National Archives website can now access more than 115,000 scanned images of original records from 108 volumes of Poor Law Union records, searchable by place, name and subject matter and free to download at http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/livingthepoorlife .
That records can be downloaded free of cost is an exception in the UK National Archives.
KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 19. August 2010, 16:07 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Dennis S. Karjala. 2010. "Why Intellectual Property Rights in Traditional Knowledge Cannot Contribute to Sustainable Development" ExpressO
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dennis_karjala/5
The point is only that intellectual property rights in traditional knowledge can do no good (in promoting sustainability) and may do much harm, by tying up knowledge in exclusive rights that inhibit its application to sustainability (or anything else) without any compensating social gains.
See also
http://www.delicious.com/Klausgraf/Folklore
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2004/09/28/korruptes-afrika/
Update:
http://afro-ip.blogspot.com/2010/09/ghana-to-prosecute-illicit-uses-of.html
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dennis_karjala/5
The point is only that intellectual property rights in traditional knowledge can do no good (in promoting sustainability) and may do much harm, by tying up knowledge in exclusive rights that inhibit its application to sustainability (or anything else) without any compensating social gains.
See also
http://www.delicious.com/Klausgraf/Folklore
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2004/09/28/korruptes-afrika/
Update:
http://afro-ip.blogspot.com/2010/09/ghana-to-prosecute-illicit-uses-of.html
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 17. August 2010, 23:36 - Rubrik: English Corner
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KlausGraf - am Montag, 16. August 2010, 05:54 - Rubrik: English Corner
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KlausGraf - am Montag, 16. August 2010, 05:50 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://www.tuningbaghdad.net
Tuning Baghdad brings together a growing archive of rare video footage, audio clips and historical information on Iraqi Jewish musicians and the music scene that was displaced from Baghdad in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Tuning Baghdad brings together a growing archive of rare video footage, audio clips and historical information on Iraqi Jewish musicians and the music scene that was displaced from Baghdad in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
KlausGraf - am Sonntag, 15. August 2010, 23:17 - Rubrik: English Corner
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KlausGraf - am Sonntag, 15. August 2010, 01:36 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Wednesday 8th - Friday 10th December 2010, Apex Hotel, Dundee, Scotland
The Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm:
an interdisciplinary approach conference is organised by the Centre for Archive and Information Studies at the University of Dundee. It is supported by a Royal Society of Edinburgh Arts and Humanities research award and is the second conference within the Investigating the Archive project. The first conference, the Philosophy of the Archive, was held in Edinburgh in March 2009. Selected papers from that conference are available in a special issue of Archival Science, Vol 9, no 3, 2009. The speakers and presenters are from a wide range of countries, including Brazil, Canada, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.
The conference will explore the following themes:
Session 1: Value, Appraisal and Theories of Identity and Memory
Session 2: The Impact of Description on the Archival Record
Session 3: The Act of Display and Interpretation in the Creation of Memory
Session 4: Records and Truth: the Creation of Community and National Identities
Session 5: Everyone their Own Archivist – an Eternal Verity or a Digital Virtue?
Session 6: Activating the Archive: A Site for Creative Exploration.
Session 7: Beyond the Written Word: Recording Memory and Identity
Session 8: The Making of History: Archives and the Historian
The keynote speakers are:
* Terry Cook, University of Manitoba, Canada: Shifting the archival paradigm for memory, identity and community
* David Lowenthal, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Honorary Research Fellow, University College London: Pandora’s plenitude: archives for all forever?
* Graham Dominy, Chief Director, National Archives of South Africa: Overcoming the apartheid legacy
Full details are in the Conference Programme. Please click on the Programme button to the left.
Conference Homepage
The Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm:
an interdisciplinary approach conference is organised by the Centre for Archive and Information Studies at the University of Dundee. It is supported by a Royal Society of Edinburgh Arts and Humanities research award and is the second conference within the Investigating the Archive project. The first conference, the Philosophy of the Archive, was held in Edinburgh in March 2009. Selected papers from that conference are available in a special issue of Archival Science, Vol 9, no 3, 2009. The speakers and presenters are from a wide range of countries, including Brazil, Canada, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.
The conference will explore the following themes:
Session 1: Value, Appraisal and Theories of Identity and Memory
Session 2: The Impact of Description on the Archival Record
Session 3: The Act of Display and Interpretation in the Creation of Memory
Session 4: Records and Truth: the Creation of Community and National Identities
Session 5: Everyone their Own Archivist – an Eternal Verity or a Digital Virtue?
Session 6: Activating the Archive: A Site for Creative Exploration.
Session 7: Beyond the Written Word: Recording Memory and Identity
Session 8: The Making of History: Archives and the Historian
The keynote speakers are:
* Terry Cook, University of Manitoba, Canada: Shifting the archival paradigm for memory, identity and community
* David Lowenthal, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Honorary Research Fellow, University College London: Pandora’s plenitude: archives for all forever?
* Graham Dominy, Chief Director, National Archives of South Africa: Overcoming the apartheid legacy
Full details are in the Conference Programme. Please click on the Programme button to the left.
Conference Homepage
Wolf Thomas - am Samstag, 14. August 2010, 13:03 - Rubrik: English Corner
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